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Because easy and accessible voting is extremely bad for one party.
Because corporations own you and this means they can pressure how you vote in key states.
Early voting is a better solution to the problem than making it a day off, though.
“We”? Who are “we”? Star fleet?
People have to remember that this is the Internet, this thing is global.
We don’t get the day off to vote in MN but you are legally allowed to take time off to go vote (with pay). So when I was in the office, I always voted in the middle of the day right after my lunch hour.
Our boss just took us out to lunch and gave us four hours off the rest of the day to go out and vote, which is probably the most encouragement to vote I think I’ve ever gotten from any boss before. I’m sure I was entitled to it this whole time, but it’s never been encouraged like this before with this boss at any of my other workplaces, if anything, previous bosses probably would’ve talked shit if I said that’s what I wanted to do with my time.
I had a job for a few years with no MLK and no President’s day. That stretch from New Years to Memorial Day was very, very long.
Meanwhile all the schools in my area are polling places so kids don’t have school.
Forcing many parents to take the day off anyway, but unpaid (or using PTO time, if they have it).
Working as intended. Make voting as difficult and distasteful as possible so we can welcome fascism with big warm hugs. Finally, no more of that voting nonsense.
And why is presidents day called Washington’s birthday?
Because originally the holiday just celebrated the first US president, George Washington and then they consolidated into Presidents Day so they didn’t have plethora of Dead President Birthday holidays.
We had Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday both as holidays when I was a kid. Lincoln was born in November, so it wasn’t a perfect balance with February, but it was close enough to one.
Yeah and I think they collapsed into president’s day to avoid adding a day for Kennedy.
Fred Astaire would explain it to you, but he can’t tell a lie.
The poor and desperate will vote less under the current conditions. It is all baked into the US cake. Wait until you realize that the US never passed the Equal Rights Amendment. Still waiting on those bastard laggard states to ratify it for nearly 50 years.
It gives employers the ability to suppress votes.
Dems win if voter turn out is too high, so Republican block attempts to make it a day off. So why didn’t Biden push ot through when Dems last had the house and the senate?
Because they’ve never had the senate. You need 60 votes to get past the fillabuster and to fix THAT you’d need Sinama and Manchin to agree to that.
Because Democrats respect the filibuster.
why didn’t Biden push [it] through when Dems last had the house and the senate?
I think that’s only been 4 months out of the last 50 years, and I bet there was some pretty fundamental stuff to unfuck first. And then they ran out of time.
Because Dems need something to cry about every cycle. They could do so many things if they actually wanted to.
I’ll give you 3 guesses
- pancakes
- adamantium
- squirrels
(I’m bad at guessing)
You got 2 out of 3 correct.
Yay, C+!
I just need one.
- Money
You know what?
Take the day, fam. Go vote, get some ice cream, and have a mental health day. You’ve earned it.
Voting makes me sick. That’s why I call in sick. The fact my employer needs to give us 3 hours off to vote makes it that much more plausible; as no one would skyve off a half-day.
Be well. Don’t be sick. Or do, if voting makes you sick too. I feel a cough coming on even talking about it. Maybe a migraine too. Definitely feel dizzy. Some kinda verklempt. Tawk amengst yeselves.
The ruling class wants you to celebrate them more than it wants you to have any influence in their decisions. It’s frighteningly close to HR pizza party logic.
Because Republicans don’t want you to vote if you have the kind of job that you can’t just take whatever time you want off.
“People voting for their leaders? That’s socialism!”
